EDC 430 F09 CL02 - Bicycle Lab and How Students Understand Science

Agenda for Class 02: What is Understanding? Scientific Literacy?

• Schedule Revisited (Teaching Rationales?)
• Why is it important to teach science?
• How do students understand science concepts?
  • Group 1: How do students learn?
  • Group 2: What does it mean to Learner-centered?
  • Group 3: What does it mean to be Knowledge-centered?
  • Group 4: What does it mean to be Assessment-centered?
  • Group 5: What does it mean to be Community-centered?
• Bicycle Lab
  • Collect Data
  • Analyze data and draw conclusions
• Application: Develop a worksheet for the Bicycle Lab

This Week's Assignments

• Due Friday, Sept 25:
  • Read Chapter 1 and 2 in Fried's Passionate Teaching and share your reactions to Fried
  • Please contribute to finishing our Bicycle Lab worksheet.
• Due Monday, Sept 28, 2009
  • Reading
    • Review RIDE GSEs on RIScienceTeachers.wikispaces.com (Read GSEs in your discipline)
    • NSES Ch 6: Content Standards (Skim)
    • Fried, Ch 3 - A Passion for Content
    • Introduction to Concept Maps

• Obtain from your CT:
  • Class policies
  • Safety Policy
  • List of Semester 2 units/topics.
• Create a one paragraph version of your teaching rationale. Append this to your first version on URITK.